The Night Tiger

A Novel

By:
Yangsze Choo

Narrated by:
Yangsze Choo

Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dance hall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for. Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master’s dying wish: that Ren find the man’s finger, lost years ago in an accident, and bury it with his body. Ren has 49 days to do so, or his master’s soul will wander the earth forever.

4 out of 5 stars

very satisfying

By
Ian Macdonald
on
03-19-19

April 2019

"You won’t be able to put this down! I’m excited to announce that our April pick is The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo. Set in a tiny Malaysian town in the 1930’s, the story is about a mystifying tiger who haunts the villages, followed by a series of mysterious deaths. The two main characters will captivate you as their paths are destined to cross. I can’t wait to hear what you think!" x Reese

About the Author/NarratorYangsze Choo is a fourth generation Malaysian of Chinese descent. Due to a childhood spent in various countries, she can eavesdrop (badly) in several languages. After graduating from Harvard University, she worked in various corporate jobs and had a briefcase before writing her first novel The Ghost Bride, which, like The Night Tiger, she narrates herself. Her performances perfectly capture the dialects and sense of mystery present in her stories. Yangsze loves to eat and read, and often does both at the same time. She lives in California with her husband and children, and several chickens.

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

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By:
Marlon James

Narrated by:
Dion Graham

Length: 24 hrs and 2 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
470

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4.5 out of 5 stars
449

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3.5 out of 5 stars
444

Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose", people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows the boy's scent, he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them.

5 out of 5 stars

book is great but the performance is Emmy worthy

By
Sarah
on
03-16-19

You will hear more about this series

I’m not claiming any credit for finding this one, as it has already become something of a movement, but I am definitely swept up in the transcendent force that is Marlon James and Dion Graham. I saw Neil Gaiman described the setting as "hallucinatory," and I haven’t heard a more apt description, but don’t let that fool you into thinking this is an aimless, vague, or overly literary effort. It is absolutely riveting: My "listening hours per day" have more than tripled since I started listening to Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Word is Marlon James spent a long time researching African languages as well, and Dion Graham just nails all of the different accents. But the merits of Graham’s performance aren’t limited to language or accents. In every minute there is a new threat, a new scheme, and a new astoundingly unique voice; be it beast, witch, demi-god, or amorphous liquid assassin. I can only imagine Graham took a good break after this performance because the sheer number of different voices would put any narrator to the test, and he aced it.

You Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying, as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Spanning a range of genres and topics - from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural - these are stories about sex and punishment, guilt and anger, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel, revolt and arouse, scare and delight in equal measure. And, as a collection, they point a finger at you, daring you to feel uncomfortable.

5 out of 5 stars

Enthralling

By
jason short
on
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With the daring and agility of an acrobat

I was recently in Las Vegas for business and I had the chance to take in a Cirque du Soleil performance for the first time. I found it bizarre and unsettling, but it was without a doubt one of the most astonishing displays of absurd talent I have ever experienced. That's also pretty much how I felt after finishing Kristen Roupenian's debut collection, You Know You Want This.

While "Cat Person" (the New Yorker story—also included here—that earned Roupenian a reported seven-figure advance after it went viral) has a humanistic, is-this-even-fiction feel to it, this collection shows range, restlessness, and a need to experiment. Each entry presents a bizarre challenge that Roupenian, with deft trickery, consistently pulls off. A daring leap taken. An elegant landing. Despite her insane talent, I'll leave the jury out on whether this collection is capital I Important, but that's okay. These stories are unsettling for sure, but also playful, ambitious, and very, very fun.

Golden Child

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By:
Claire Adam

Narrated by:
Obi Abili

Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
110

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
104

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4.5 out of 5 stars
102

Clyde works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks after the home. Their two 13-year-old sons wake early every morning to travel to the capital for school. They are twins but nothing alike: Paul has always been considered odd, while Peter is widely believed to be a genius, destined for greatness. When Paul goes walking in the bush one afternoon and doesn't come home, Clyde is forced to go looking for him. And as the hours turn to days, his world shatters - leaving him faced with a decision no parent should ever have to make.

5 out of 5 stars

moving story

By
PJBlack
on
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His brother’s keeper

It is unbelievably satisfying how well Claire Adam’s Golden Child nails so many things about life in Trinidad, my homeland. From the opening chapter, peppered with the language and landscape of this beautiful yet complicated Caribbean island nation, to the nods to class and socioeconomic strife that run throughout, Golden Child is a loving, yet clear-eyed look at Adam’s and my shared birthplace. But what really makes this debut novel a stunner is the heartbreaking look at twin brothers Peter and Paul—one bright and destined for great things, the other painfully slower by comparison—and their family’s fears and hopes in the face of one agonizing decision. It’s a story that you often wish would go another way but nevertheless are compelled to finish, drawn deeper by both Obi Abili’s enrapturing narration as it bounces between clear British and Trini Creole, and Adam’s riveting and unsettling prose.

Hark

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By:
Sam Lipsyte

Narrated by:
Sam Lipsyte

Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
25

Performance

3.5 out of 5 stars
23

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3.5 out of 5 stars
22

Hark Morner is an unwitting guru whose technique of "Mental Archery" - a combination of mindfulness, mythology, fake history, yoga, and, well, archery - is set to captivate the masses and raise him to near-messiah status. It’s a role he never asked for, and one he is woefully underprepared to take on. But his inner-circle of modern pilgrims have other plans, as do some suddenly powerful fringe players.

5 out of 5 stars

Spot on, hilarious

By
Gwen Eberle
on
01-17-19

Observational precision... and a whole lot of humor

Mindfulness is the not-so-subtle art of our current cultural moment. Everywhere we look, self proclaimed gurus from fitness to finance are pitching us tips on how to live our best—happiest, simplest, most successful—lives. This is not a knock on the genre; improvement is largely better than the alternative. But getting better is kind of like getting rich: most of the quick schemes are dubious at best. Enter Hark Morner, the reluctant sage at the center of Sam Lipsyte’s latest, and perhaps best, novel—his first in almost nine years. Morner is the guru behind "mental archery," a cultish craze in mindfulness, which prizes focus as a means of, well, doing better. While listening to Lipsyte perform the book, one might find oneself starting to see the world the way he sees it, at the intersection of, say, panic and desire. Lipsyte is not only our funniest living writer, he’s also one of the most astute, and in Hark he comes as close as any of his contemporaries to accessing what Saul Bellow once described as the "primitive commentator"—the one who tells us "what the real world is."

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Tim Gunn,
and others

Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,090

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,922

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,911

Heads Will Roll is an Audible Original from Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon and her cocreator/costar (and real-life sister) Emily Lynne....

5 out of 5 stars

I demand that Audible instantiate a sixth star

By
E. Cejvan
on
05-07-19

The Goldfinch

By:
Donna Tartt

Narrated by:
David Pittu

Length: 32 hrs and 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
27,236

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
24,790

Story

4 out of 5 stars
24,815

The author of the classic best-sellers
The Secret History and
The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel....

2 out of 5 stars

Boy, am I in the minority on this one.

By
Bonny
on
11-04-13

Ayiti

By:
Roxane Gay

Narrated by:
Roxane Gay

Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
68

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
62

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
62

From New York Times best-selling powerhouse Roxane Gay, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience....

5 out of 5 stars

A Glimpse of Real

By
Susan M Werner
on
08-18-18

Next Year in Havana

By:
Chanel Cleeton

Narrated by:
Kyla Garcia,
Frankie Maria Corzo

Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,361

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,905

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,893

After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity - and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution....

5 out of 5 stars

Amazing story line but the performance...

By
Grace F
on
07-10-18

The Hypnotist's Love Story

By:
Liane Moriarty

Narrated by:
Tamara Lovatt Smith

Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
8,850

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
8,023

Story

4 out of 5 stars
8,004

From the author of critically acclaimed
What Alice Forgot comes a wonderfully fun, insightful novel about the crazy things we do for love....

4 out of 5 stars

a twisted love story...so interesting!

By
S
on
01-23-13

Good Omens

By:
Neil Gaiman,
Terry Pratchett

Narrated by:
Martin Jarvis

Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
25,545

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
22,315

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
22,333

The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to
The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies....

5 out of 5 stars

Satisfyingly Hilarious

By
FernT
on
09-27-11

Queen Sugar

A Novel

By:
Natalie Baszile

Narrated by:
Miriam Hyman

Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,517

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,275

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,269

Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous....

5 out of 5 stars

I didn't think I would like it but I loved it 😊

By
Colette M. Cummings
on
12-05-16

See Me

By:
Nicholas Sparks

Narrated by:
Christopher Ryan Grant

Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
9,879

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
8,755

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
8,736

Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when Maria Sanchez crosses paths with him, his plans are upended....

5 out of 5 stars

Best Book Nicholas Sparks Has Ever Written!

By
Wendi
on
01-07-16

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

50th Anniversary Edition

By:
Ken Kesey,
Robert Faggen (introduction)

Narrated by:
John C. Reilly

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,013

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
3,735

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,729

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time....

5 out of 5 stars

Exceptional

By
Anon
on
06-04-18

Swan Song

By:
Robert R. McCammon

Narrated by:
Tom Stechschulte

Length: 34 hrs and 19 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
8,020

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
7,241

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
7,274

In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth's last survivors have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil....

5 out of 5 stars

Simply an Amazing Story

By
Amanda H.
on
06-21-12

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

A Novel

By:
Gail Honeyman

Narrated by:
Cathleen McCarron

Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
37,525

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
34,658

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
34,522

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking....

5 out of 5 stars

Close To Perfection--A Definite Thumbs Up!

By
Kindle Customer
on
08-07-17

The Ice Limit

By:
Douglas Preston,
Lincoln Child

Narrated by:
Scott Brick

Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
4,511

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,116

Story

4 out of 5 stars
3,111

The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile....

5 out of 5 stars

Wonderful, Well researched, Page Turner

By
Lyn
on
08-10-10

The Remains of the Day

By:
Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrated by:
Simon Prebble

Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,837

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,496

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,481

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world in postwar England....

5 out of 5 stars

Butler reflects back on his years of service

By
Adam Shields
on
04-26-14

Tourist Season

By:
Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by:
George Wilson

Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,083

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
589

Story

4 out of 5 stars
587

The cast, which includes a deranged journalist, a visionary ex-jock, and a lovesick detective, is just the kind of company Carl Hiaasen's fans love to keep....

5 out of 5 stars

CAUTION: BELLY ACHING LAUGHTER IMMINENT!

By
Tracy P.
on
02-08-17

Fingersmith

By:
Sarah Waters

Narrated by:
Juanita McMahon

Length: 23 hrs and 36 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,282

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,078

Story

4 out of 5 stars
2,079

Orphaned as an infant, Susan Trinder was raised by Mrs. Sucksby, “mother” to a host of pickpockets and con artists....

5 out of 5 stars

The BEST BOOK I"ve read this year!

By
Amazon Customer
on
08-30-11

It

By:
Stephen King

Narrated by:
Steven Weber

Length: 44 hrs and 55 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
37,883

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
34,920

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
34,805

Welcome to Derry, Maine. It's a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real....

4 out of 5 stars

Great Audiobook! Editing Clarification

By
jeverett
on
10-06-17

The Things They Carried

By:
Tim O'Brien

Narrated by:
Bryan Cranston

Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
8,082

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
7,490

Story

4 out of 5 stars
7,459

The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing.....

4 out of 5 stars

Heavy Load

By
Mel
on
10-28-13

The Ghost Bride

A Novel

By:
Yangsze Choo

Narrated by:
Yangsze Choo

Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
944

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
892

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
889

A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twists....

5 out of 5 stars

One of the best books I've ever read

By
SC123
on
10-14-15

A Bachelor Establishment

By:
Jodi Taylor

Narrated by:
Anna Bentinck

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,873

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,737

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,732

High adventure and dark mystery combine in a sparkling historical romance, by Jodi Taylor writing as Isabella Barclay from The Chronicles of St. Mary's....

5 out of 5 stars

A clever and well-plotted Regency Romance

By
Hope
on
09-17-15

Then She Was Gone

A Novel

By:
Lisa Jewell

Narrated by:
Helen Duff

Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
28,471

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
25,783

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
25,720

Fifteen-year-old Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenage golden couple. And then she was gone....

5 out of 5 stars

SO GOOD

By
Anonymous User
on
05-24-18

Before We Were Yours

A Novel

By:
Lisa Wingate

Narrated by:
Emily Rankin,
Catherine Taber

Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
48,440

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
44,085

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
43,929

Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat....

4 out of 5 stars

I was rivetted, finished in three days.

By
Lin Cloward
on
06-26-17

A Gentleman in Moscow

A Novel

By:
Amor Towles

Narrated by:
Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
24,279

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
22,501

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
22,418

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin....

5 out of 5 stars

A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity

By
Cathy Lindhorst
on
08-27-17

Sacre Bleu

A Comedy d'Art

By:
Christopher Moore

Narrated by:
Euan Morton

Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
2,221

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,978

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,987

It is the color of the Virgin Mary's cloak, a dazzling pigment desired by artists, an exquisite hue infused with danger, adventure, and perhaps even the supernatural....

5 out of 5 stars

Not Moore at his funniest, but Moore completely

By
John
on
04-11-12

In Farleigh Field

A Novel

By:
Rhys Bowen

Narrated by:
Gemma Dawson

Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
4,487

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,081

Story

4 out of 5 stars
4,066

World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate....

4 out of 5 stars

Fun New Characters

By
SW Clemens
on
03-17-17

Circe

By:
Madeline Miller

Narrated by:
Perdita Weeks

Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
19,393

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
18,121

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
18,023

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child - not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring, like her mother....

5 out of 5 stars

Refined writing with an intimate performance

By
Michael - Audible Editor
on
04-11-18

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

A Novel

By:
Heather Morris

Narrated by:
Richard Armitage

Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
7,950

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
7,279

Story

5 out of 5 stars
7,244

This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....

4 out of 5 stars

A hopeful perspective on a harrowing time

By
melyssa57 (A Page Before Bedtime dot com)
on
10-10-18

Berlin 1961

Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth

By:
Frederick Kempe

Narrated by:
Paul Hecht

Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
134

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
113

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
114

In Cold War Berlin, the United States and the Soviet Union stand nose to nose, with the possibility of nuclear war just one misstep away....

5 out of 5 stars

I am scared in retrospect

By
theenglishmajor
on
06-26-11

Daisy Jones & The Six

A Novel

By:
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Narrated by:
Jennifer Beals,
Benjamin Bratt,
Judy Greer,
and others

Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,649

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
5,283

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,252

Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late '60s, sneaking into clubs, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock 'n' roll she loves most. By the time she's 20, her voice is getting noticed....

3 out of 5 stars

A Different Kind of Review

By
D. Fields
on
03-23-19

The Book of Polly

A Novel

By:
Kathy Hepinstall

Narrated by:
Jenna Lamia

Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,497

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1,395

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,394

Willow Havens is 10 years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman....

5 out of 5 stars

The incredible Jenna Lamia!

By
Mary Smiroldo
on
05-09-17

The Girls

A Novel

By:
Emma Cline

Narrated by:
Cady McClain

Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
3,340

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
2,949

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
2,963

At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park and is immediately caught by their freedom....

5 out of 5 stars

Loved it

By
Ethan
on
10-25-16

The Cold Dish

A Walt Longmire Mystery

By:
Craig Johnson

Narrated by:
George Guidall

Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
12,413

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
10,795

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
10,774

Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel, the first in the Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire....

5 out of 5 stars

Not Your Ordinary Western Novel (Series)

By
Dataman
on
09-12-12

The Alchemist

A Fable About Following Your Dream

By:
Paulo Coelho

Narrated by:
Jeremy Irons

Length: 4 hrs

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
39,709

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
34,427

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
34,447

This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure....

5 out of 5 stars

A Timeless Tale

By
Judi
on
01-07-07

Best Sellers from Audible Studios

More Bedtime Stories for Cynics

By:
Kirsten Kearse,
Gretchen Enders,
Cirocco Dunlap,
and others

Narrated by:
Nick Offerman,
Patrick Stewart,
Alia Shawkat,
and others

Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
5,146

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,739

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
4,723

Make sure the kids aren’t around! Just because you’re a grown-up doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the art of the children’s bedtime story. Nick Offerman presents this collection of 12 short stories written in the style of a classic kids' tale, but with a decidedly dark and adult approach. What really happened after Snow White died, from the perspective of the one medically trained dwarf? A naive wizard professor reports back from the trenches of an underprivileged school of magic. And much more!

5 out of 5 stars

Probably not for everyone

By
Katie
on
05-03-19

Heads Will Roll

By:
Kate McKinnon,
Emily Lynne

Narrated by:
Kate McKinnon,
Emily Lynne,
Tim Gunn,
and others

Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,090

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,922

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,911

Heads Will Roll is an Audible Original from Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon and her cocreator/costar (and real-life sister) Emily Lynne. Produced by Broadway Video, this is not an audiobook - it’s a 10-episode, star-studded audio comedy that features performances from Meryl Streep, Tim Gunn, Peter Dinklage, Queer Eye’s Fab Five, and so many more. Please note: This content is not for kids.

5 out of 5 stars

I demand that Audible instantiate a sixth star

By
E. Cejvan
on
05-07-19

The Darkwater Bride

An Audible Original Drama

By:
Marty Ross

Narrated by:
Clare Corbett,
Donal Finn,
Jamie Glover,
and others

Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
11,226

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
10,327

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
10,287

Late Victorian London. When James Miller, the most respectable of Scottish businessmen, is pulled, dead, from the Thames, his daughter is drawn into an investigation which reveals a whole world of secrets and corruption. Alongside local detective Culley, Catriona’s search for her father’s killer leads all the way to the tragic truth behind the ghostly legend of The Darkwater Bride and the power of her deadly kiss. An epic drama starring Adrian Scarborough, Claire Corbett, Freya Mayor and Jamie Glover, The Darkwater Bride combines the genres of the Victorian mystery thriller with the equally classic Victorian mode of the ghostly tale.

3 out of 5 stars

spooky audio drama / sex & violence crime fiction

By
Paul
on
04-07-19

Swan Song

By:
Robert R. McCammon

Narrated by:
Tom Stechschulte

Length: 34 hrs and 19 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
8,020

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
7,241

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
7,274

Facing down an unprecedented malevolent enemy, the government responds with a nuclear attack. America as it was is gone forever, and now every citizen - from the President of the United States to the homeless on the streets of New York City - will fight for survival. In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth's last survivors have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil, that will decide the fate of humanity.

5 out of 5 stars

Simply an Amazing Story

By
Amanda H.
on
06-21-12

More Bedtime Stories for Cynics

By:
Kirsten Kearse,
Gretchen Enders,
Cirocco Dunlap,
and others

Narrated by:
Nick Offerman,
Patrick Stewart,
Alia Shawkat,
and others

Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
5,146

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,739

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
4,723

Make sure the kids aren’t around! Just because you’re a grown-up doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the art of the children’s bedtime story. Nick Offerman presents this collection of 12 short stories written in the style of a classic kids' tale, but with a decidedly dark and adult approach. What really happened after Snow White died, from the perspective of the one medically trained dwarf? A naive wizard professor reports back from the trenches of an underprivileged school of magic. And much more!

5 out of 5 stars

Probably not for everyone

By
Katie
on
05-03-19

Heads Will Roll

By:
Kate McKinnon,
Emily Lynne

Narrated by:
Kate McKinnon,
Emily Lynne,
Tim Gunn,
and others

Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,090

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,922

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,911

Heads Will Roll is an Audible Original from Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon and her cocreator/costar (and real-life sister) Emily Lynne. Produced by Broadway Video, this is not an audiobook - it’s a 10-episode, star-studded audio comedy that features performances from Meryl Streep, Tim Gunn, Peter Dinklage, Queer Eye’s Fab Five, and so many more. Please note: This content is not for kids.

5 out of 5 stars

I demand that Audible instantiate a sixth star

By
E. Cejvan
on
05-07-19

The Darkwater Bride

An Audible Original Drama

By:
Marty Ross

Narrated by:
Clare Corbett,
Donal Finn,
Jamie Glover,
and others

Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
11,226

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
10,327

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
10,287

Late Victorian London. When James Miller, the most respectable of Scottish businessmen, is pulled, dead, from the Thames, his daughter is drawn into an investigation which reveals a whole world of secrets and corruption. Alongside local detective Culley, Catriona’s search for her father’s killer leads all the way to the tragic truth behind the ghostly legend of The Darkwater Bride and the power of her deadly kiss. An epic drama starring Adrian Scarborough, Claire Corbett, Freya Mayor and Jamie Glover, The Darkwater Bride combines the genres of the Victorian mystery thriller with the equally classic Victorian mode of the ghostly tale.

3 out of 5 stars

spooky audio drama / sex & violence crime fiction

By
Paul
on
04-07-19

Swan Song

By:
Robert R. McCammon

Narrated by:
Tom Stechschulte

Length: 34 hrs and 19 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
8,020

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
7,241

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
7,274

Facing down an unprecedented malevolent enemy, the government responds with a nuclear attack. America as it was is gone forever, and now every citizen - from the President of the United States to the homeless on the streets of New York City - will fight for survival. In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth's last survivors have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil, that will decide the fate of humanity.

5 out of 5 stars

Simply an Amazing Story

By
Amanda H.
on
06-21-12

A Bachelor Establishment

By:
Jodi Taylor

Narrated by:
Anna Bentinck

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,873

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,737

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,732

High adventure and dark mystery combine in a sparkling historical romance, by Jodi Taylor writing as Isabella Barclay from The Chronicles of St. Mary's. Bascombe, widowed and tied to an impoverished estate, has learned to ask little of life. With no hope of leaving, the years have passed her by. Lord Ryde, exiled abroad after a scandal, has returned to strip his estate and make a new start in America.

5 out of 5 stars

A clever and well-plotted Regency Romance

By
Hope
on
09-17-15

In Farleigh Field

A Novel

By:
Rhys Bowen

Narrated by:
Gemma Dawson

Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
4,487

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4,081

Story

4 out of 5 stars
4,066

World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. But Pamela has her own secret.

4 out of 5 stars

Fun New Characters

By
SW Clemens
on
03-17-17

The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition

By:
Margaret Atwood,
Valerie Martin - essay

Narrated by:
Claire Danes,
full cast,
Margaret Atwood

Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
26,060

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
23,972

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
23,906

After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.

4 out of 5 stars

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By
ambER
on
04-20-17

The Things They Carried

By:
Tim O'Brien

Narrated by:
Bryan Cranston

Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
8,082

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
7,490

Story

4 out of 5 stars
7,459

Hailed by
The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling",
The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series
Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

4 out of 5 stars

Heavy Load

By
Mel
on
10-28-13

Bellewether

By:
Susanna Kearsley

Narrated by:
Tim Campbell,
Sarah Mollo-Christensen,
Megan Tusing

Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
559

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
515

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
514

It's late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this complex and dangerous time, a young French Canadian lieutenant is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, an unwilling and unwelcome guest. As he begins to pitch in with the never-ending household tasks and farm chores, Jean-Philippe de Sabran finds himself drawn to the daughter of the house. Slowly, Lydia Wilde comes to lean on Jean-Philippe, true soldier and gentleman, until their lives become inextricably intertwined.